1. To confer knight.
The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a
tap on the
shoulder with the sword.
2. To
invest with any dignity or
new nature; to entitle; to call. "A
man of wealth is dubbed a
man of worth." (Pope)
3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. "His
diadem was dropped
down Dubbed with stones." (Morte d'Arthure)
4. To strike, rub, or cloth smooth; to dab; as: To cloth with an adz; as, to
dub a stick of
timber smooth.
To strike
dress with teasels to
raise a nap.
To
rub or cloth with grease, as
leather in the process of cyrrying it.
To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and
cutting off the comb and wattles. To
dub a fly, to cloth a
fishing fly. To
dub out, to
fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a
series of
little projections.
Origin: AS. Dubban to strike,
beat ("dubbade
his sunu . . . To ridere." AS. Chron. An 1086);
akin to Icel. Dubba; cf. OF. Adouber (prob. Fr. Icel) a chevalier, Icel. Dubba til riddara.
Source: Websters Vocabulary